The need to improve opioid prescribing and data collection in patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery

N Levy; S A McNally; D N Lobo

doi:10.1111/anae.15784

The need to improve opioid prescribing and data collection in patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery

Anaesthesia. 2022 Aug;77(8):854-857. doi: 10.1111/anae.15784. Epub 2022 Jun 28.

Authors

N Levy¹, S A McNally^{2

3}, D N Lobo^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.
² Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, Eastbourne, Sussex, UK.
³ Honorary Clinical Professor, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK.
⁴ Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre and National Institute for Health Research Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals and University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
⁵ David Greenfield Metabolic Physiology Unit, MRC Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research, School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK.

PMID: 35762197
DOI: 10.1111/anae.15784

No abstract available

Keywords: arthroplasty; chronic non-cancer pain; opioid prescribing; persistent postoperative opioid use; postoperative complications; risk factors; shared decision-making.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Analgesics, Opioid* / therapeutic use
Data Collection
Humans
Orthopedic Procedures*
Postoperative Pain / drug therapy
Postoperative Pain / prevention & control
Practice Patterns, Physicians'
Retrospective Studies

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid

Grants and funding

MR/P021220/1/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom